User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030412 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030412 Bug 173046 fixed the spellchecker to not spellcheck quoted text, since you don't really want, by default - to spellcheck text you didn't write. This fix only applied to html mail compose. This bug is being logged to request a fix for plain text compose. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

This isn't a composer bug; it's a mail bug -->

Hi All, I just checked out Netscape 7.1's spell checker XPI in 1.4 general release. And, it works. Doesn't check quoted text either. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.1/windows/win32/jgksyc/spellchk.xpi --Tony p.s. checking quoted text makes us all look rather amateurish to our customers. This band-aid will help us all save face until this bugs FINALLY gets fixed

I care about this for thunderbird. re-assigning. Maybe JF can show me how easy it is to add a wrapper tag around quoted plain text replies which the spell check engine can key off of.

*** Bug 214505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

How can 7.1 do this? That implies the spellchecker knows that it is quoted text... anyone want to look at the NS source code? :)

The spellchecker knows nothing about skipping ... it's a filter registered on the TextServices module ... the one used by Composer/Mail's spellchecker lives in: mozilla/editor/composer/src/nsComposeTxtSrvFilter.cpp

Mike 7.1 does not skip replies to plain text compose either. This is an open bug that needs to be fixed. Which is why I assigned it to myself. We have to do some work in plain text compose to make this techincally possible.

Hi Scott, Check out (my) comment #2. My Netscape 7.1 spell checker does indeed skip plain text quoted messages. Have you tested it lately? Maybe you are using Mozilla 1.5 alpha? --Tony

Are you sure you were not inside an HTML editor instance? Using NS7.1 with the spell checker with plain text does not work for me. You must have the Use HTML compose checkbox turned off in Account Settings for the account you are replying from to truly be in plain text compose. I can assure you from working "on the other side" that this code does not exist at all. We need to wrap plain text replies just like HTML compose does with the block=cite tag to make editor skip over these elements before handing the text off to the compose window. Anyway arguing about that is moot and has no bearing on the fact that we want to fix this and I'm planning on doing so for Thunderbird. Let's focus on the fix.

I have a fix for this feature. Kin, it turns out editor already wraps quoted material for plain text with a pre or a span tag: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/editor/libeditor/html/nsHTMLDataTransfer.cpp#1944 and editor sets a value of _moz_quote="true" on the pre or the span attribute. I thought I was going to have to write code to wrap plain text quoted material in a tag. Knowing this made the rest of the bug easy to fix. I added a few more atoms to nsComposeTxtSrvFilter to check for this additional information. Patch coming up.

Comment on attachment 128919 [details] [diff] [review] the fix for plain text sr=kin@netscape.com ==== I'd lose the "Quote" in mPreQuoteAtom and mSpanQuoteAtom, but it's up to you. ==== Can you line up the comments you added in the .h file?

Comment on attachment 128919 [details] [diff] [review] the fix for plain text r=mkaply same comment as kin :)

fixed (with the review comments).

Confirmed fixed, 200308081, mailnews & thunderbird, linux/x86.

Does the fix also include *not* checking the "Written by Miscrean Splleler on Aug 1, 2003" line that it at the front of every reply/forward quote block

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This bug consistently reoccurs when the Enigmail extension is installed. Tested on Mozilla 1.5 20030925, Enigmail 0.76.7.0 (http://enigmail.mozdev.org/).

I still seem to be having this problem in thunderbird 1.5. Is there something that needs to be done to enable the fix?

I still see this in Version 31.1.2 (packaged in Ubuntu) when replying to plain text emails. Spellcheck is checking the whole message.